Chapter Four 2
"I saw it." I nodded, trying to keep myself calm and look mature. I must not make any mistakes this time. For the Gundam model, I have to fight!
She took a puff of the cigarette and exhaled slowly. The charm between her inhalation and exhalation made me, as a woman, fall in love with her.
"That's good." She paused, narrowing her narrow eyes slightly. The look was so sharp that I didn't dare to look into her eyes. I could only lower my head and pretend to be an ostrich. "How old are you?"
"I...just graduated. I'm 18 years old."
I said, looking down at my toes.
I am a person who cannot lie. When I was a child, my mother would find out every time I lied. The proof is that I would lower my head and look at my toes every time I lied. After I tremblingly said "18 years old", I lowered my head, holding my breath and not moving, like a prisoner waiting for judgment.
After an indeterminate amount of silence, when my neck was sore, she finally spoke: "You will start work tomorrow, from 7 to 9 p.m., and your salary will be calculated every day. Is there any problem?"
"Ah!" I raised my head suddenly.
"has a problem?"
Her pretty eyebrows frowned and her eyes twitched, which frightened me so much that I immediately covered my mouth, stared at her and shook my head: " No problem, no problem."
There is indeed no problem. I was just surprised that I got hired so easily. I originally thought that I would have to go through some kind of assessment, but now it seems that finding a job is not that difficult!
The foreman nodded and said, "Then go to the Human Resources Department to complete the entry procedures and go to work tomorrow. Remember not to be late."
"Um."
It was not until my first day at work that I realized how hard the working people work. It turns out that it is not easy to provide for oneself, and the job of a receptionist is really not as easy as it seems.
Because it had just rained, it was very cold at night. The wind wrapped in fine rain hitting my body was indescribably cold. I was wearing the uniform reception dress of the "Imperial Capital", a red cheongsam embroidered with a five-clawed golden dragon with an imperial aura. Although the "Imperial Capital" was very luxurious and the reception dress looked luxurious and imposing, it was not warm at all.
I was shivering. This skirt was so thin that the wind blew directly on my skin. Even though I was shivering with cold, I still had to smile and say "Welcome" to everyone who came in. Every time I felt my face cramped, it turned out that making money was not as easy as spending money. Dad and Mom, I will never spend money recklessly again, I swore to myself.
"We all have to have a good time today. It's been a long time since we heard you sing." A slightly tipsy guest walked in from outside, followed by a few people.
"Yeah, we haven't been together for a long time, and this place is still the same as before."
"I remember you sang the best."
I heard a few people talking and laughing in the distance. The lights in the room were dim, so I couldn't see clearly how many people they were. From their voices, they seemed to be young. They might be students from nearby who came here for a party. I wondered in my mind, but I didn't take it seriously. When I heard the voices getting closer, I bent down reflexively and said, "Welcome."
"Ruya?" A voice came from above my head. I suddenly froze there as if struck by lightning. I didn't know whether I should look up and say "You've got the wrong person" or run away, because I was too familiar with the owner of this voice, it was Ruiqing!
"Uh...long time no see." I forced a smile that was uglier than crying.
How could I be so unlucky? I would run into this. It's really a narrow road for enemies to meet.
"Why are you here?" he asked me with a dark face and frown.
"You can stay here, so why can't I?" My tone also turned bad. I hate people who talk like him the most. It's like interrogating a criminal. Why?
"Please go upstairs if you want to sing and don't disturb me while I'm working." I said angrily.
"You..." Ruiqing stood in front of me, so angry that he couldn't utter a word for a long time.
I ignored him and continued with my work. If someone came, I would bow my head and say "Welcome". If no one came, I would just stand there respectfully. Humph! I'm going to piss you off to death!
"Hey, Ruiqing, this girl is quite pretty. When did you get her? We don't know anything about her." A boy next to him suddenly came up to me, looked me up and said to Ruiqing with a sly smile on his face.
"Yeah, it's really disloyal of you to hide such a beautiful girl from her."
“This should be my sister-in-law, right?”
They were talking at once, and the more I listened, the uglier my expression became.
"Shut up!" Ruiqing suddenly yelled, and everyone fell silent in an instant. The hall was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
This is the second time I saw Ruiqing get angry. Just like last time, his eyes seemed to be spitting fire, which looked scary. But I am not afraid of him. Are you trying to compete with me in glaring? Who is afraid of who?
Seeing him like this, I also started to stare at him with wide eyes, to see whose eyes were bigger! Just when my eyes were sore and tears were about to fall, he suddenly grabbed my wrist, and before I could react, he had already pulled me a few steps away.
"Come with me and leave here. This place is not suitable for you." Ruiqing pulled me out in a domineering manner.
"Are you sick? Let me go! Do you hear me? Let me go, I'm going to work!" I struggled desperately to shake off Ruiqing's hand, but his strength became stronger and stronger, making my wrist hurt. I struggled desperately but couldn't get rid of his grip.
"Let go! You're hurting me!" I yelled.
"I'm sick? I think you're the one who's sick!" He turned around and glared at me, his dark eyes burning with anger. "Do you know where this place is?"
"How could I not know? It's just a KTV!" I said, looking up.
"Humph! You also know this is a KTV. You, a little girl, work here, you..."
"What's wrong with me? If you can come, why can't I?" I took the opportunity to shake his hand off and said, "Besides, I'm working and it's better to be self-reliant than for you to spend your parents' money."
"You don't know what life and death are!" Ruiqing said gritting his teeth.
I thought to myself that if he could, he would probably want to bite me.
"How can I not know whether I live or die? Besides, what does my life or death have to do with you?" I sneered and said, "Who are you to me? Why do you care about me?"
"You..." Ruiqing suddenly stopped talking and was silent for a while.
"Me what? Since you are not related to me, why should I listen to you? Just take care of yourself and don't meddle in other people's business!" I said coldly, not giving him any room to talk back. "Also, don't tell Tsurugahara, otherwise I will never forgive you."
"You..." Ruiqing was so angry that he was speechless, but I didn't even look at him and walked back.
There was no sound behind me, it was very quiet.
I walked for a while, turned around, and saw Ruiqing's lonely figure slowly disappearing into the night. My heart ached inexplicably.
Suddenly, I remembered the time when I first met him. He was sitting in front of me. He was short and fat, with a watermelon haircut, and looked very cute.
At that time, he was always bullied by other boys, and as a student sitting behind him, the only way for me to comfort him was to give him a White Rabbit candy. So he used to say that he would protect me when he grew taller, but I couldn't tell whether he would protect me or not, but his height really grew by leaps and bounds, so that now I have to look up at him with extreme imbalance in my heart.
If you think about it carefully, I have known Ruiqing for a long time. To be fair, apart from his harsh words, he is a very good guy.
I know what I said just now was too much, but I just don't want my friends to worry about me, especially Ruiqing. Ruiqing, I'm sorry, I didn't mean the last sentence, please forgive me.
The night was getting deeper and deeper. On my way home from get off work, I pounded my legs, which were almost stiff from standing, and looked at the stars in the sky. The whole starry sky was like a dense chessboard filled with shining chess pieces. One, two, three, I raised my head and stretched out my fingers to count the stars in the sky one by one, and I was stunned without realizing it. There are so many stars in the sky, I wonder which one belongs to me? When I was a child, my grandmother told me that everyone has their own star, and whoever finds it can be happy. Where is my star? As I thought about it, a faint smile slowly emerged in front of my eyes, and he said softly: "Ge Ruya."
"Ruya, wake up!"
"Ah!" I suddenly opened my eyes, and the dazzling sunlight made it difficult for me to adapt for a while.
"Why did you fall asleep again? Why do you like to sleep so much lately?" Xiaoyi's nagging voice was in my ears.
Did I fall asleep again? I looked up and saw the math teacher on the podium still writing formulas. I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. We were in class now. What happened just now... Oh, it was another good dream.
"Hate it, why did you wake me up? I was having a good dream." I complained while rubbing my eyes, then lay on the table with an unwilling look on my face.
"Look at you, you've fallen asleep like an idiot. Look at the time now, school is about to end, my little lady!" Xiaoyi stared at me helplessly.
"Uh...really?" I raised my head and looked out the window. The afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on the glass window, warm, like a soft big hand gently caressing everyone immersed in it.
"Haha, it's almost time to go home from school." I pulled the corner of my mouth awkwardly.
"You are confused." Xiaoyi rolled her eyes at me. "By the way, did you see Ruiqing today?"
"Ah?" My heart skipped a beat. Unpleasant memories suddenly came to my mind. The figure of that guy leaving sadly appeared clearly in front of me. I said coldly, "No."
"Even you haven't seen him?" Xiao Yi curled her lips and tilted her head as if she was thinking hard about something. "He didn't come to class all day today, and I don't know where he went. Is he okay?"
"You haven't come all day?" I looked back and sure enough, there was nothing on Ruiqing's seat except those comic books.
Didn't he come to class all day? I frowned slightly, because I had been avoiding him for the past two days, trying not to be in the same place with him, and even if I met him, I would walk away, so I didn't notice that he didn't show up all day today.
"That's right. The head teacher asked about him today. I don't know why he didn't come." Xiaoyi muttered like an old mother.
"Yesterday..." I was about to say, "Ruiqing was fine yesterday," but when I thought of what happened yesterday, I immediately stopped talking. I couldn't let Xiaoyi, the "gossip queen", know about it, otherwise I would be finished.
Although I shut my mouth in time, Xiaoyi still came up to me with an evil look on her face, her eyes full of curiosity: "What happened yesterday? Come on, tell me the truth!"
Under the "torture" of "gossip queen" Xiaoyi, I kept shaking my head and sighing. Oh, I made the wrong friends, and such gossipy ones at that. I had no choice but to briefly tell her what happened in the past two days. Seeing more and more question marks in Xiaoyi's eyes, I shook my head helplessly: "That's it, I didn't mean to say such harsh words yesterday, I just didn't want him to be there..."
"Ge Ruya, you are really crazy. How dare you go to a place like KTV!" Xiaoyi interrupted me and looked at me with concern.
"I have no choice. I have to make money." I said weakly with my chin resting on the table.
Xiaoyi frowned and turned my face, saying seriously: "Although I am worried, but seeing you so motivated to pursue the person you like, I feel very excited. So, Ruya, you have to take good care of yourself and don't get hurt."
"Yeah." Seeing Xiaoyi understand me so well, I immediately perked up, nodded heavily at her, and then hugged her, "I knew Xiaoyi was the best."
"What?" Xiaoyi pushed me away with a look of disgust, "I'm just afraid that you'll embarrass me in public."
I really made the wrong friends.
Although I was very tired at work, I insisted on going. This was the first time I was so persistent in doing something. I wanted to give the person I liked his favorite thing. This was the thing I wanted to accomplish the most. How could I give up so easily? So after school, I still insisted on going to that KTV. I insisted on going. Today was the last day.
Before I left, my mother stood behind me and asked me, "You went out at this time two days ago , and you went out again today. What are you doing?"
